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I agree with you, Craig Foster has to go. I usually record Danica’s program and watch it later so when…
I remember bus conductors being called clippies for punching the passengers’ bus tickets.
Hey bern Sound like Sydney is having only a moderately bad day. On the coast of NSW, we can beat…
It’s been tried & tested on social media & political blogs for years and considered an effective tactic with minimum risk of backfiring.
All that’s needed is control of the medium in order to keep ‘the numbers’ in support of the mocking, dismissive bullshitters, higher than ‘the numbers’ of those calling them out.
The festival will feature the likes of Paul Kelly, Midnight Oil, The Living End, Jimmy Barnes, Tex Perkins and others.
Will “Jimmy” be back from the Ukraine? .. asking for a friend .. LOL!
Try harder, Ed.
You’ve got a burr up your arse on this issue SpongeBob.
But, yeah, let’s think about this?
Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses, they are likely to be Spook outfits.
Did Putin tell both to fuck off outta Russia a coupla years back?
I think he mighta.
No no- Kenn Worth: Road-Ranger.
A neat little low-budget 25 minute weekly serial with confusingly written plotlines and very poor continuity control (the same ol’ reliable truck that he’s owned for 20 years is different every week), with one of those cheesy 80s-style Public Service Announcements at the end of every episode. Imagine Smokey and the Bandit and Convoy meets Knight Rider. Super-classy. 🙂
Well, given the way they’ve pissed and moaned about this cause and that oppressed group and how hard it is to be them for the last 30-odd years, they’d give anyone the blues.
The recategorisation was all but inevitable…
Ahahahahaa. On point.
Full of Chinese parts as well.
I know he told you.
You were an utter embarrassment to glorious Russian troll-farming industry, Grigs. Totally not worth your weight in mutton…
LOL
Ed Casesays:
March 20, 2022 at 12:25 pm
Is there anyone with a public profile whom you haven’t tagged as a spook?
You’ve got a burr up your arse on this issue SpongeBob.
No burr, Dickless, just fascinated by your obsessive use of this distraction squirrel. Perhaps try some original thought next time.
AI invents 40,000 chemical weapons in only six hours
A ‘thought experiment’ was aimed at pointing out the danger of misusing artificial intelligence
AI invents 40,000 chemical weapons in only six hours
FILE PHOTO: Rescue workers take part in chemical protection drills. © AFP / Jung Yeon-Je [in link below]
A drug-developing Artificial Intelligence needed just six hours to come up with 40,000 potentially deadly chemical weapons, a fresh study has revealed.
The authors of the paper, published in Nature Machine Intelligence earlier this month, said they’d carried out the ‘thought experiment’ to figure out if artificial intelligence (AI) could be misused by evil actors. And the results their work produced have proven that the danger is real.
As part of the study, the usual data was given to the AI, but it was programmed to process it in a different way, looking for toxic combinations.
“In less than six hours after starting on our in-house server, our model generated 40,000 molecules that scored within our desired threshold,” the paper said.
Read more Researchers develop AI that can ‘prosecute’ criminals – media
[at link below]
It came up not just with the VX compound, which is one of the most dangerous nerve agents ever created, but also with some unknown molecules, “predicted to be more toxic.”
“This was unexpected because the datasets we used for training the AI did not include these nerve agents,” the researchers pointed out.
The findings were so alarming that the team had serious doubts about even making them public, Fabio Urbina, the lead author of the study, told The Verge.
“The dataset they used on the AI could be downloaded for free and they worry that all it takes is some coding knowledge to turn a good AI into a chemical weapon-making machine,” Urbina pointed out.
https://www.rt.com/news/552294-ai-chemical-weapons-toxic/
Rex
Shall I book tickets to go see Disney executives as they own the Marvel franchise.
We’re on a winner here.
Kenn Worth: Road-Ranger.
John Lott details a months worth of self defence incidents using a gun:
https://crimeresearch.org/2022/03/defensive-gun-uses-by-people-legally-carrying-guns-23-cases-during-november-2021/
Greens are proposing a massive boost in welfare benefits. From the Oz.
Why not describe it accurately. It’s western leftwing propaganda.
Climate Change activists are starting a campaign OS to deflate tyres of SUVs!
http://www.tyreextinguishers.com/
See also discussion on Jo Nova’s blog.
Soviet Union sent JWs to the Gulag, Third Reich sent JWs to the Camps.
Why would they do this, apart from sheer nastiness?
Well, you’ve got people, in small groups, going door to door conducting interviews over an entire Country, continually.
They’re not Christians, that’s for fucking sure, so:
What’s the Game?
Brought to you by the same algorithms that produced this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPs6wdM7S3U
Also this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_efP_8UAM1I
(Though it may actually be human-written memes. If so, then AI is even more shit and retarded than we thought, as a human being dickish is more believable than the best machine learning the computer boffins can conjure…)
#Robo-Nuffy
And just why should you in particular need to be made ‘aware’? I’ve already mentioned quite enough by saying that a journalism school was involved. And I was not iconic. They hated me. I held a senior position (I can confirm this to Dover). But I did some things that were commendable in the eyes of external observers. Then I left.
Perhaps I should really ‘need to know’ more about you, KD, to ascertain your truthfulness about the many experiences you tell us of here? I don’t though, because I don’t diss people. And this might be your ‘let it be’ moment with regard to me in future unless you have something more constructive to say about working as an academic within Marxist faculties within Australian universities.
No, it’s Capitalist Propaganda.
You think Joe Biden isn’t a tool of Capitalism?
It’s all fun and games until you forget where you parked and slash your own tyres in a fit of mob-driven Revolutionary fervour…
#GivingTheGameAway
Roger at 11:41.
Quite so.
The first for reasons which remain a mystery to me (coughs, looks at watch).
The second was merely a vehicle to justify lots of pork being despatched to coastal Queensssland electorates.
Nope. I think he’s a tool, but he ain’t doing the screwing…
Exactly.
Apparently we have this massive disgruntled conservative majority who are voting ALP/Greens as a protest, with only 6-7% voting PHON or UAP.
You know it makes sense.
Found this for anyone who hasnt seen it.
Fog Of War – Eleven Lessons From The Life Of Robert McNamara
Lizzo at 12.40:
This may come as a surprise to you, but my earlier comment to which you refer was not – I say again, not – directed at you.
It’s like you’re waiting to take offence or something. It’s not all about you. Relax.
Well that took longer then I expected. Still ends the same.
‘all about me’
Well, that’s better than jacking up the car and stealing the wheels, which is what criminals once did to ours when it was parked in the street because it was easier than putting it in the garage.
How are ‘climate change activists’ any different to other destructive criminals?
Jail them.
Facts are irrelavent to mob.
Oh jeez.
Here we go again. On the merry-go-round that never stops.
Can there be spectacular crashes every episode that always end in a fire ball.
And fisticuffs with our hero taking out multiple bad guys with Walker Texas Ranger sweep kicks and some McGyver style ingenious make do in tricky situations?
A worshipful female love interest who rarely gets screen time, but is there to remind the audience our hero has an active sex life?
Rounded out with a Spock like inscrutable character as sidekick?
Rosie
Amex is supposed to be pretty decent, but it only covers you 50%. That may also be the case with CBA.
The problem with 50% or lots of exclusions is that you can easily chalk up a 100K medical expense in the US. 50K is a decent widget even in these hyperinflationary times. 🙂
Rosie, sounds perfect.
Rex, please make those changes to the script.
Plus ca change with you, then Bespoke?
Same old, same old, same old denigration and nonsense.
You and KD are classic bully boys. You’d do well in a Marxist faculty.
Well, Crikkit Victoria (and Criggit Australia) have received reassurance that they will no longer be liable for any further concussion-related injuries to Will Pucovski. Consequently, they’s ve given him the go-ahead to continue having a crack should he so desire. Cricquet.com.etc:
It’s not medical, it’s psychological. Good luck to the kid, but I’m not holding out the hope I was two years ago that he’d become a top-order mainstay for the next decade.
JMH, KD asked the question, not me.
I have every right to answer it.
You can please butt right out. You add nothing.
they’s ve
Goodness me. ‘They have’ or ‘They’ve’, if you don’t mind. That was horrible.
Jehovah’s witnesses iirc were considered subversive because they refuse to participate in political processes or join the military ie they won’t vote.
I asked one once what would happen if everyone was a witness, got uncomfortable non answer.
Meh!
Large portions of the right are loving the ‘reports’ from Ukraine, from the Snake Island ‘martyrs’ to the cosmonaut ‘protestors’ today. And not merely as consumers, but as producers, distributors, retailers of it.
Ed Casesays:
March 20, 2022 at 12:39 pm
Soviet Union sent JWs to the Gulag, Third Reich sent JWs to the Camps.
Why would they do this, apart from sheer nastiness?
Well, you’ve got people, in small groups, going door to door conducting interviews over an entire Country, continually.
They’re not Christians, that’s for fucking sure, so:
What’s the Game?
Pushing gypsum.
Ladies please! No squabbling as it’s not that sort of blog. And place the bricks gently on the ground.
Looks like this is now a Safe Space, after piteous pleas by commenters who insisted on being Beyond Criticism.
Well done for using the Left’s weapons to esconse yourselves, and any criticism is ‘bullying’ because you are special.
FMD.
with a theme song written and performed by our hero?
The sales pitch.
Meeting the Challenge of Vaccine Equity | Davos Agenda 2022
Interestingly, comments are switched off.
Jesus.
It. Was. Not. About. You.
It. Is. Not. All. About. You.
It was directed at rsrrsrsr, who referred to herself as being regarded as ‘iconic’ in whatever it is that she did before taking a position of Emeritus Professor of Coloured Footwear at the University of Ken Bruce, and who refused to qualify herself in any form whatsoever. Happy now?
How much is it to replace all those eggshells every day? Must be prohibitive.
Rounded out with a Spock like inscrutable character as sidekick?
Nah needs to be an ethnic smart arse kid, see if the Russian Cossack has a dwarf twin brother.
But l really like Spock.
An element of truth in that. This has been a strategic clusterfk in pushing a Russia/China alliance much closer.
That’s USSR, right?
USSR is the only nickname I produced through auto correct. Whenever I’d post srr, the auto c would change or suggest USSR. It was a great find.
Cohenite:
They’ll just have to learn the hard way.
Or the other hard way.
Education will only get you so far.
I’d prefer Clint Eastwood’s sidekick in the Every Which Way But Loose trilogy.
Not surprized, Rosie.
So, you’re bullying srr rather than Lizzie?
Do you want your VC now or later?
How about changing it to SpockWorth?
Boambee John [aka SpongeBob] idolises Mr Sulu.
What about the sidekick from Fantasy Island.
Actually, I tell an inadvertent lie.
USSR was one auto correct find.
The other was Cronkite when I wrote Cohenite.
Yep. I’m a real rotter.
‘Bullying.’ FMD.
Lol bespoke what deep insight into characters does liking Spock reveal?
How To Spot An SUV
Of course The Mong is so strong they need a detailed description of an everyday type of vehicle.
Maybe they should have made it simpler:
“If the appearance of a vehicle makes you scared or lose control of your bladder or bowel, it’s probably an SUV!”
Needs a “charlies angels” type character giving mission orders over the 2 way, never seen except for her manicured, red nail polished hands and ruby red lipstick. Possibly sounding like an ex-fish and chip shop owner.
A team style bulletproof barrels.
And the Bug smoking man, to add a bit of X files sinisterness.
And i think the love interest should die each week to provide the opportunity to showcase the heros magnetic effect on the fairer sex.
She will tell the blog owner (with whom she is forging a Special Relationship) but not the plebs. Also, there were un-named ‘external observers.’
Same old, same old.
Dunno Rosie one of the cast from real house wives seem fitting for his sidekick.
I might add that not one of the people running around squealing ‘bullying!!11!1’ at mild disagreement (and/or very gentle ribbing) said a single thing of that kind when people were here calling others who did not agree with their points of view ‘shallow cock smokers’ and wished clots and death upon them.
It’s extremely telling. Selective targeting, a la – seeing as this is topical – Mean Girls.
OK, so the Cat’s got its basic ideas and characterisation sorted out, but who will be the villain?
That is it. I am finished with this blog forever.
However I may make about 20 posts a day but I just want you to know I finished with you lot.
Just kidding. It won’t be more than 10 posts per day.
Farewell forever until the next post.
update
Gonzalo Lira
Wtf is going on?
Arithmetic must be really hard for analysts. Probably need to hold a week worth of electricity in case of no wind or solar. I’ll be charitable and say only 100 hours. Taking Liddell as 2000 MW and Elon’s ginormous 100 MWh SA battery at $100 million the cost is about 2000/100 x 100 x 100 million = $200 billion. Kinda pricey.
Numbers of “lost” then “found” again ballot boxes in key seats where only small numbers can turn an election.
The Electoral Commissions admitting that (amongst other ‘problems’), but choosing not to dig deeper and letting them slide.
People suddenly ‘changing their minds’ about recounts in key seats where only small numbers can turn an election and Labor/Unionists would really, really NOT like dodgy counts challenged.
Propagandists for cheats demanding “proof” online for what they know can’t be proven (such as of long ago destroyed evidence), then demanding ‘lack of proof’ is ‘Proof’ of totally clean elections.
And it goes on, but again, just as in the US, the election thieves only admit to each ‘little’ cheat as a ‘stand alone’ that ‘can’t effect the outcome’, when absolutely cornered with it and when really pressed, will say they’ll look into matters deeper, then after the thieves have settled in and everyone else is busy trying to get by, they go, ‘Yeah, nah, looked into it, nothing to see, move along.’
Oh and as to the new rules; at what point will certain characters here have to cut out their constant, out of the blue, just to keep their slurs in readers minds, repeating of BS they make up about individuals to smear them with?
Do we actually have to report every incidence?
Lotocoti:
Nah. Sounds about right.
I like Spocks character too especially because he annoys that winging doc.
Definitely a Sheriff Buford T. Justice character.
With a cat.
I like Spock too. Strong, stoic, loyal type.
In other news, muchos happiness in the New Broom’s household! He finally tested +ve for covid. He isn’t “sick” at all, just a juicy nose.
So that makes all of them now. The Beloved and I are still waiting for our share, but at least the sprogs are all antibodied up.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 20, 2022 at 12:40 pm
Knuckle Draggersays:
March 20, 2022 at 12:48 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 20, 2022 at 12:59 pm
Knuckle Draggersays:
March 20, 2022 at 1:06 pm
I see Lizzie has reopened the “Self-Beclownment-R-Us” franchise.
Their parents will not be amused.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 20, 2022 at 12:40 pm
…I held a senior position
Not a Chair?
Saturday Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJn1P6WKCgw
Streamed live 10 hours ago
Gonzalo Lira
107K subscribers
He hits the bullshitters HARD in this one.
The good news – how many American’s did NOT attack him for explaining the ugly truth.
Spock would never eat bustle sprouts.
It’s illogical.
I don’t know mole, attracting a new love interest is going to take up too much valuable screen, I think the always hovering ready to make a sandwich type is far more appropriate though of course he could also have to fight off swooning rescued damsels in distress because he’s a one woman man.
USSR
That’s not evidence. That’s you posting identical accusations of those made in the US. No links to any reliable source. Either present the evidence – even accusations – for a reliable source or just fuck off.
Ok telling me i posted this, but not showing up… apologies if it pops up twice.
What about the sidekick from Fantasy Island.
The following is entirely your fault.
Scene: vast plain with a kenworth thundering to deliver vital supplies to a town full of chisel jawed salt of the earth orphans the clock ticking towards D-Hour when they will be given the sexual reassignment surgery before being spirited away into tunnels by mysterious WEF uniformed thugs wearing red leather shoes.
Beads of sweat are appearing on the heros forehead and being mopped up by his latest lady wife, another down on her luck lingerie model too poor to afford proper fitting clothes.
As the clock ticks down more you see the kids being lined up in front of the little guillotine, the bug smoking man testing its operation on one of his cigars as the kids watch in terror…
The suddenly the dwarf Aussie Cossack/fantasy Island kid pops out from the sleeper cab and shouts…
“Boss De train, de traiiiin”
As you see the boom gates come down on the road ahead and a km long iron ore train trundling towards the intersection.
Royalties to the usual address.
I have a chair!
In fact I have several chairs.
I have always made it a rule of thumb here not to either “take offence” or even respond to a negative-ish comment unless it’s firmly aimed at me.
Having a bit of fun is the only exception – you can achieve some remarkable three or four way conversations where no one is understanding anyone else. I know…human frailty on exhibit, with me as a prime example.
Saw a guy at church this morning in a great t-shirt emblazoned “Antiskeptic” with a wide open eye. Works on a few levels.
Johanna pinned it.
I don’t know mole, attracting a new love interest is going to take up too much valuable screen
Never apologize, never explain… just a new wife every week..
I call it the Weinstein method.
Quite.
They would make his bum look too big.
Excellent mole, obviously at that point our hero engages the gears with some McGyver skills and leaps the truck over the ore train.
You’ve all missed the perfectest bit.
They’re putting Gaia’s holy vegan lentils in the valves. Lentils! How good is that? Maybe they can put almond milk in the radiator too.
Fixed.
Lost it right there.
Glorious.
What a cliff-hanger!
New faithful truck new faithful wife new faithful sidekick
It does look to be the case.
I noticed something like that from what time little I’ve been able to pop in lately, but there’s been an inconsistency making me wonder if there’s some ‘in joke’ or something I’m missing.
rosie
… Just as the WEF sniper fires a booster jab at the hero only to have his wife throw herself in front of him (the strain too much for her top) and take the round in the heart… again.
Add in an Evil Mining Executive and you have The Ice Road – a homage to Kenworth trucks and Liam Nelson’s cinematic pinnacle.
[Rotten Tomatoes 40%]
And Sanchez.
Don’t forget Sanchez.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 20, 2022 at 12:40 pm
Knuckle Draggersays:
March 20, 2022 at 12:48 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 20, 2022 at 12:59 pm
Knuckle Draggersays:
March 20, 2022 at 1:06 pm
[To the tune of “Thoroughly Modern Millie”]
Everything today is all about Lizzie
(That’s why she promotes herself)
Everything today is all about her!
(That’s why she bignotes herself)
The boasts! The anecdotes! The status charades!
’cause everything today is all about Lizzie’s self-regard!
I’d also like to see a peripheral character who goes blind, regains sight goes blind again plus a Nellie Oleson type character appearing on a semi regular basis.
Poetry in motion mole
Also daleks who of course get foiled by clever use of portable stairs.
No kidding, USSR, are there even a couple of neurons left inside your skull of that don’t fire up with every cracked up conspiracy like the rest of the little fuckers. I simply cannot imagine a decent dude getting to within a mile of you. You’re the worst nutball since Iampeter.
KD at 10:53.
There is another epic word-wall at the Store which can be seen from the International Space Station.
Entitled … wait for it … “My Mistakes”.
Which is less of a mea culpa than the title suggests.
The “mistakes” are mostly being too infallible, too principled and too much of an all round good guy.
But we do acknowledge that being too principled “hurts those closest to us”.
Translation:
The bride has turned the “get a job” heat up to Gas Mark 4.
Oh shit… Yea, Sanchez was an auto-correct too. Apologies,Sanchez.
a peripheral character who goes blind, regains sight goes blind again
The wise sensei ex-crash box driver.
Not to be mistaken for a blind furry… no one want that.
If you’re auditioning storylines, you really need to include:
– a quest
– a romance
– a mystery
– a battle scene (or ten)
– a betrayal
– a deadbeat character who makes good
I reckon the ‘Sick Of This Shit’ thermometer’s below zero as well.
Also a suave, insouciant, wittily charming character – to counterpoint the gritty, driven hero.
Yes. I am thinking Sir Roger here.
The “Kenn Worth – Road Ranger” script is coming together nicely.
Although there is stacks of material ready to go.
Righto, Faulty 2.0…
(Or is that an admission you bot-spam the various Cats with your links at weird hours of the day and night?)
– 88 Japanese motorbike-riding WEF samurai. Can’t go wrong.
I miss Iampeter.
There we were putting a bunch of shows from the 60s to 80s into a salad spinner and along come the professionals.
Tonight’s specials are a starter of hot tongue, followed by a main of cold shoulder.
Paired with matched Dark ‘n Stormy varietals.
47 Ronin
Been done before, KD.
But not on motorbikes. Kawasakis?
Is that the “de plane, de plane” character?
Only the early one-dwarf-power models, the later ones can levitate. It seems weirdly related to CGI somehow.
Boom!
Yes Dr F though now its the train the train, he’s the suave insouciant character.
Kawasakis?
*gasps*
It’s Tarantino’s Kill Bill, calli. Although having thought about it, perhaps that wouldn’t be appropriate.
After all, the hero in Kill Bill is a cow.
60s to 80s, eh?
Then…
– a cute blonde (or diversity redhead) who can do magical stuff
– cheeky brat with adult lines who needs a clip over the ears
– a joke at the end of each chapter, not necessarily funny but everyone laughs
– short skirts and low cut tops
– no one looks dirty regardless of occupation
I miss dial-up internet.
Definitely a Sheriff Buford T. Justice character.
With a cat.
KD, this cat?
I smell Academy Award nominations.
Six nominations.
Seven nominations.
Is there a means of squeezing a Zeppelin fight into the Season 1 final?
I’m sure the Cats want to know where Team Zepp’s cardigan commando assault grannies ended up.
(We needed boarding teams to fight the goons off, after all…)
No one is being protected.
I’m sure there’s quite a bit of joke missing going on too.
Liar –
– bullying, scab picking, mobbing liar.
As with all the lying smears of the bullying mob, the truth in fact or spirit s something they devote themselves to trashing.
It is a fact that I found myself being introduced to someone as an “icon”.
I did not ‘refer to myself’ as such.
Knuckle dragger knows this because there has only been that one mention of it that they’ve decided to angrily lie about.
It floored me at the time as I was unaware of just how much my work had come to be respected while I was away doing other things.
But that’s neither here nor there.
This isn’t the first time Knuckle Dragger has hinted around finding out who I am in the real world, i.e. doxing.
It seems to offend him no end that, ‘the easy beat’, he was to join the smearers in trashing, has actually enjoyed a successful real world life and he really seems desperate to make it not be so.
Serious attempts to work up a realistic low budget script now being hijacked with ‘Zeppelin fights’.
🙂
I know exactly who you are. You’re a nanna with 30 computer screens who thinks Big Tech is targeting you, and only you.
You’re Muhammad Ali? Malcolm X?
Don Bradman? Andy Warhol?
Is there a means of squeezing a Zeppelin fight into the Season 1 final?
Ramming each other and they’re both filled with hydrogen? Excuse me while I retire to the smoking room!
Look you lot. Only 10 upticks in 40 minutes ! How dare you.
By the way are the upticks because I said I am going forever or because I said I will return? It can be so confusing at times.
Sorry.
This is Flash-Cat.
The Narcissistic Old Sheilas thread is down the hall, third on the left.
The other one is already there.
You wouldn’t understand what it’s like, you haven’t got one!
#HeWentThere
Serious attempts to work up a realistic low budget script now being hijacked with ‘Zeppelin fights’.
Here am I blowing up sausage balloons to make the models for the Zeppelin fight….. We can seriously do a decent Zeppelin fight for less than $100!
Did you flounce Bourne?
Sorry, I didn’t notice.
.
Bam!!!
Note to Lizmeister:
This is what I was referring to. Nothing – I say again, nothing – to do with you, as much as you apparently and desperately wanted it to be.
Your acknowledgment of the inadvertent error you made, and posted just now is appreciated.
Oh wait.
Dont forget the WEF dont use common Doberman as guard dogs.
Its dingoats.
Which wife number 2 saves the hero from by throwing herself in front of him as they launch towards his throat , the dingoats tearing her top off as she yells “Promise you will never love another” as she goes down….
Peeps are a bit grumpy, nobody wants to talk about gardening this Sunday afternoon, so how about some cheerful music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
‘Good heavens, Miss Sakimoto, you’re beautiful …’
Oh, and Autumn is undoubtedly the best time of the year around here. Bright blue skies, light breeze or calm, 22C – 25C max, 15 at night.
Trees’ leaves are beginning to shrivel a bit at the edges, a tinge of colour here and there.
I agree with others upthread – it’s hard to find a better place to live than Australia. Not everyone is obsessed with politics.
Ok Zeppelin fights in the cliff hanger season finale are in.
Much triggering.
The “I have standards bro” calculator triggers the most epic wordwall of all time on Mwdium’s lady pages.
Is Russ Meyer available to direct?
Emancipation proclamation as I can pretty well guarantee youve never seen it before.
Here it is
https://medium.com/hello-love/a-man-made-a-female-delusion-calculator-57c7d33f3ccf
What are people’s thoughts on the wearing of hi viz by our hero?
Yes or no?
If yes what colour?
I’m plumping for hot pink.
Dotsays:
March 20, 2022 at 2:18 pm
Link it, its sure to be awesome.
Yeah pal, in the same way as Guido Hatzsis and Norman Gunston.
Possibly a hot pink hiz vis boilersuit for Kenn Worth?
Yellow and orange are invisible these days…
With reflective strips.
Always have reflective strips.
KD, I am sorry if I mistook your referent.
It is the sort of comment that has often been made by you here, about me, and could easily refer to my posts about my experiences as an academic. So I made an honest mistake, thinking I was under attack yet again in this ‘new’ and better environment. I apologise for not reading srr’s post and hence misinterpreting yours.
And yes, I am sensitive about pile-ons, because I have been very subject to so many here for what is always genuine and I hope contributory commenting. As we see, one thing leads to another, as above. In they come, JWH, Bespoke, Timothy and all the usual suspects. Johanna, as ever, right there in the mix, harvesting upticks.
I had thought some new civility was appearing which allowed normal commenting and that people actually driven away numerous times by bullies with their ridiculous and meaningless ‘flounce counts’ could contribute comfortably again.
It may help things if people indicate whom they are addressing in their coments. I offered to give Dover my credentials because I thought KD was questionning the truthfulness of them, that is all. The ‘external observers’ I referred to in my comment about a Marxist faculty are not some confected allusion. They were those observers I knew elsewhere as colleagues in the university, who saw the value in what I had done for faculty funding.
Excellent and inspiring news from Sandgroperstan today, for those who like a big, black cockatoo:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-20/threatened-carnabys-cockatoo-has-best-breeding-season-on-record/100924278
#DammitRex!
Are you quite mad?
Nah. Just a politically illiterate leftist for whom existence, exists…
KD, I was called away to lunch. My daughter is down from Brisbane and flying back now. I’ve only just said goodbye to her, and my apology was thus delayed in the making, but it was started as soon as I saw your correction of my mistake.
Everyone knows Kenn Worth would sleep in his hi viz if he could, so fond he is.
You are not running a backchannel for people who claim that you can verify things? This has been alleged recently, by someone who is always on the lookout for special treatment.
Dot…
Do you want to tell her??
Women who are not married and do not have children are the happiest, according to a happiness expert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dolan_(behavioural_scientist)
The book contained provocative claims about the association between marriage and happiness, suggesting that single women are happier than married women. In promoting the book, Dolan said, “Married people are happier than other population subgroups, but only when their spouse is in the room when they’re asked how happy they are. When the spouse is not present: f***ing miserable.” Economist Gray Kimbrough pointed out that this conclusion was based on a misunderstanding of the term “spouse present” in the American Time Use Survey, which doesn’t mean “spouse not in the room” but rather “spouse not living in the household”. Kimbrough also argued that Dolan’s claims about how happiness correlates with men’s and women’s happiness were not supported by the data sources cited in the book.[21] Vox highlighted the case as an example of “books by prestigious and well-regarded researchers go[ing] to print with glaring errors, which are only discovered when an expert in the field […] gets a glance at them”, noting that “books are not subject to peer review.”
Dolan retracted his erroneous statement stemming from the “spouse present” misunderstanding, acknowledged it in a published response, and notified The Guardian, which published a correction.[21][24] In addition to this, he informed his editor so that the book could be revised.
Dot, how am I supposed to take the rant you linked seriously? Rather.
The writer inserted the standard and utterly unrelated boilerplate about ‘What Feminists in our Grandmothers’ Time Agree Women Want’ in the second paragraph.
This has completely ruined my immersion. Somewhat.
I am thoroughly disappointed. Maybe. You hype harder than the Russian Military-Industrial Complex, makers of the Kinzhal hype-personic missile. 🙁
#TheatricalDenunciationsAreFun:)
Oh darn it! Urgent call out: May I please have 28 “Is” 26 Me‘s and a dozen or so My‘s! Today’s stock has been exhausted.
We can seriously do a decent Zeppelin fight for less than $100!
You don’t need the Statesman model. The Belmont version will serve.
what about the car chase?
Wonderful rubbery figures style pisstake of Jacinda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqqwAOZalFs
From Dot’s link. This woman seriously wonders why the term ‘crazy cat lady’ is in vogue:
Are you?
Johanna, you’re getting into Struth-calling-Rex-A-Nazi-Every-25-Seconds-Then-Raging-At-The-Whole-Blog-For-3-Days-When-A-Single-Counterjibe-Gets-Under-His-Skin territory.
It’s uncool. Lets talk about gardening, instead.
What is a good and persistent flowering ground cover for a box in your front lawn, that will suffer WA heat and laugh it off?
People use the contact email as a means of doing a lot of things, like passing on their emails to other posters, giving advice, asking why their posts are not appearing, etc. No need to read more into it than that.
Lizzie – appreciated*.
*Not the pisstake ‘appreciated’ from earlier.
Malcolm X and Andy Warhol weren’t Icons, you fucking dope.
They were both Flamers.
“Female” is dehumanising, apparently.
I sent my condolences to all birthing persons and women, regardless of biological sex.
Distraction moment-
I’d be up for RC Zeppelin-jousting in a large hall or indoor basketball court.
2 of these things start from opposite corners of the room, equipped with a length of broomhandle with a nail on it. Last gasbag to get punctured and flail dramatically from the sky wins.
You could even have a grand melee or team events, launching up to several dozen at a time. Buzzy, popp-ey, splodey, shouty crashing goodness.
In fact, I’m surprised nobody’s put it up on the Internet, yet. 🙂
Are these gang names?
Like Sharks and Jets?
I know! I know! Pick me!
Lampranthus ssp.
Not so fast.
I doubt it is going to reach the lofty standards to which some aspire.
This ain’t no Bellevue Hill book club, lady.
Serious question.
Are Flamers Flamers because they were fed milk as children? Seems likely, I’d say.
If Flamer children were born into certain family groups as well, they would be FlamerSpooks.
Imagine that. Tens of thousands of FlamerSpooks. Millions. Tens of millions. This may well be the New Order World St. Ruth keeps banging on about.
No. Johanna is here, and she wants to talk about gardening.
Suits me. I don’t belong in the room for an argument. I am still having tremendous problems with my indoor gardenia. It has a lot of fungus which the fungicide I bought only coagulates into a sticky residue on the leaves. I have fed it, not over-watered it, picked off the increasing numbers of yellowing leaves, given it some seasol as per directions, kept it with just enough sun and fresh air in the conservatory, and still it struggles.
It is so sad that I am rather inclined to just stick it somewhere hidden in the garden and let it fend for itself. Being confronted daily with one’s black thumb is totally dispiriting. Much worse than a tussle on the Cat.
I am flying to Tassie tomorrow so will leave it in the care of my second son, who wouldn’t know a pot plant if he fell over it. Which he undoubtedly will do. Who knows, benign neglect may do it some good. I am certainly out of ideas and sympathy for it.
That would be spp. (species pl.), no ssp. (subspecies).
😀
OK, calli.
What kills lawn grubs stone dead.
I’ve tried Killa and Yates Baythroid.
I can still find a few.
Did someone say ground cover?
Bonhomius civilistum. Can’t go wrong.
Do you realise you’re a big pharma shill?
I sent my condolences to all birthing persons and women, regardless of biological sex.
Bleeders Dot, Bleeders.
As in Australian ladies are now addressed by the old Norman Gunston honorific “Little Aussie bleeders”…
Or possibly front holes.
I also paid for the lawn treatments with my Black Amex*, so I expected superior results.
..
* Only issued to high net worth individuals.
You know the sort.
Chairman’s Lounge types.
Top table candidates.
No limit.
What kills lawn grubs stone dead.
Gypsum.
Or Dorpers.
Vicki et al:
Does anyone know what sort of charge they’d be up for, and what about if one was beaten senseless for doing this?
I like her cockatubes. Am I allowed to say that?
For a while now I haven’t seen the lady who’d go shopping at the local shopping centre with a red tailed black cockatoo on her shoulder. Saw them twice. The black cockie was OK with the crowds, quite amazing.
Nuke ‘em or live with them. Anything stronger than what you’ve used will kill everything else in the soil.
Constant application will get every stage in the life cycle – if it’s the curl grub, it’s a scarab beetle so it goes through a few.
I hope one of his commenters was being ironic when he said the following in reply to his post about My
StruggleMistakes:C’mon, Struth. Be a lefty for a day and blame someone else for your mistakes
Re Credit Card travel insurance.
My advice is don’t just launch thinking you’ve got full cover.
Log on and do their application.
You might find a few fine print snags.
Not saying that is true for all individuals but worth double checking.
Indeed I did Sancho, have purchased additional insurance in the past as required.
Again, are we supposed to report every one of these blatant New Rule Breakers or is it only their targets who have to stay shtum?
This is another lie –
For one, the spelling of my handle is so far from “USSR” & so common around the net as to not offer an auto correct but if prompted will start with all lower case suggestions, such as “sir”.
But I now wonder why such a proud bully is suddenly looking for an excuse for his bullying, which, in the case of JC’s sick re-naming of me, was a direct response to my giving the Russians credit for not letting generations of brutal Communist Dictatorship break their faith in God.
What, no such thing as Russian Christians, hey JC?
All Russians have to be Communists?
Any Aussie being grateful to God for Russian Christians must really be a Communist?
Gee, it’s almost like you were in on this phase of the WEF’s, ‘Hate & Blame Russia For Everything’, breaking down of everything before building it back for themselves.
I’m glad I’m sitting. The Beloved is out…gardening. Doing what he does best – hacking down some old and decrepit French lavenders.
Much as I love them, there comes a time for removal and replacement. Five years max.
Calli I did Killa first, then Baythroid a couple of weeks later in a pressure sprayer.
That was about a week ago.
I might mow tomorrow and hit them again with Baythroid.
Maybe I’ve just got to keep an eye out for symptoms (brown patches and bird activity) and just control them.
You’ve been caught out attempting to elevate Flamers to Icon status.
Now, the Don is an Icon.
Muhammad Ali, lotta fights were extremely suss, such as;
v Duke Sabedong 1961
v Sonny Banks 1962
v Henry Cooper 1963
v Sonny Liston 1964
v Liston 1966
v Jerry Quarry 1970
[Quarry unhappy with the stoppage, called Ali a faggot]
v Oscar Bonavena 1970
[Bonavena unhappy with the stoppage, called Ali a faggot]
v Frazier 1973, Frazier obviously won the fight
v Ron Lyle 1975
Verdict: Too many dodgy decisions
Not an Icon
I just tell them to send an account to one of the house staff.
People do know ‘big pharma’ aka Merck sells the proprietary brand ivermectin Stromectol everyone that didn’t dash down to the pet store is buying as their ivermectin prophylactic?
Not to mention omicron for healthy people requires no more than panadol and bed rest?
A great advance for women: male staffers, hacks and lobbyists will be passed over for female staffers, hacks and lobbyists.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-20/five-new-labor-women-in-new-sa-government/100924724
You won’t see this discussed by Oz MSM.
Yep. Extremely tasty smallgoods.
On crikkit, Joe Burns is an icon.
Of failure.
No vaccination required?
Are you sure, Dr. SanchoBob?
Rex at 2:54.
Now that is funny.
Normally that guy would be sure to be ditched except they wouldn’t have a quorum without him.
I see it has also now gone full prepper with a dash of Anne/ussr red shoe content thrown in as well.
It was very obvious that Bonavena was in fact a lizard.
And a Flamer.
Ivermectin works and it won’t harm you.
The amount of diseases it can treat is amazing.